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SAT Offices on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. The Tax Administration Service ( Spanish: Servicio de Administración Tributaria, SAT) is the revenue service of the Mexican federal government. The government agency is a deconcentrated bureau of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico's cabinet-level finance ministry, and is ...
Inmarsat satellite telephone in use after a natural disaster in Nias, Indonesia. The unit depicted was manufactured by Thrane & Thrane A/S of Denmark. (April 2005) Inmarsat is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global mobile services. It provides telephone and data services to users worldwide, via portable or mobile ...
The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a satellite -aided search and rescue (SAR) initiative. It is organized as a treaty -based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 45 nations and agencies (see infobox). [2] It is dedicated to detecting and locating emergency locator radio beacons activated by persons, aircraft or ...
An Act to provide for the establishment, ownership, operation, and regulation of a commercial communications satellite system, and for other purposes. President John F. Kennedy signing the act. The Communications Satellite Act of 1962 was put into effect in order to deal with the issue of commercialization of space communications. This act was ...
Comparison of satellite buses. This page includes a list of satellite buses, of which multiple similar artificial satellites have been, or are being, built to the same model of structural frame, propulsion, spacecraft power and intra-spacecraft communication. Only commercially available (in present or past) buses are included, thus excluding ...
International satellite earth stations: 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2010). Peru's fixed-line penetration is the third lowest in South America after Bolivia and Paraguay. Barriers include widespread poverty, expensive services, little meaningful competition, and the geographical barriers imposed by the Andean mountains and Amazon jungles.
Intelsat I F1. Intelsat I (nicknamed Early Bird for the proverb "The early bird catches the worm") was the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit, on April 6, 1965. [1] [2] It was built by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company (later Hughes Space and Communications Company, and now ...